Crib bed



L. GOTTFRIED July 30, 1968 CRIB BED Original Filed Nov. 12, 1964 FIG. 2.

INVENTOR LOUIS GOTTFRIED BYq I E ATTORNEY.

United States Patent lice 3,394,413 CRIB BED Louis Gottfried, New York, N.Y., assignor of one-half to Jacob Berger, New York, NY. Continuation of application Ser. No. 410,611, Nov. 12, 1964. This application Jan. 9, 1967, Ser. No. 617,745 3 Claims. (Cl. -100) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE The crib bed designed in accordance with the present invention comprising a headboard a foot board and guide rods provided at the ends of one side of the crib bed. A movable side gate is arranged on one side of the crib bed and an immovable side gate is arranged on the opposite side of the crib bed. The immovable side gate has two superposed sections of mirror image configuration and these sections engage each other along a predetermined curved alternating concave and convex lines. The two sections are releasably secured to each other to be used either as a single side gate for the crib bed or each of the sections separately as a side gate on opposite sides of the bed upon its conversion into a youth bed.

This is a continuation application of the copending patent application, Ser. No. 410,611, filed Nov. 12, 1964, and now abandoned.

The present invention relates to a convertible crib bed in general, and to such crib bed, where one of the side gates is permanently secured to the head board and the footboard, respectively, which side gate consists of two parts, in particular.

It is one object of the present invention to provide a crib bed, which can easily be converted into a youth bed, and which comprises one side gate which is movable for upward and downward movement and a second side gate which is permanently but releasably secured to the headboard and the footboard, respectively, if used as a crib. The second side gate consists of two superposed sections which are of mirror-image configuration. Upon removal of the upper of the two sections to the opposite side of the crib bed, after the movable side gate has been discarded and upon securing the upper of the two sections in the place of the movable side gate, the crib bed appears converted into a youth bed.

With this and other objects in view, which will become apparent in the following detailed description, the present invention will be clearly understood in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective front view of the crib bed;

FIG. 2 is a section along the lines 2-2 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a perspective front view of a youth bed upon conversion of the crib bed into a youth bed; and

FIG. 4 is a section along the line 4-4 of FIG. 2.

Referring now to the drawing, and in particular to FIGS. 1 and 2, the convertible crib bed comprises a head board 1 and a foot board 2. The boards 1 and 22 are connected in conventional manner by means of a pair of rails 27.

The convertible crib bed comprises further an immovable side gate 3 and a movable side gate 4, which movable side gate moves along guide rods 5 which are secured to the headboard 1 and to the footboard 2, respectively.

. 3,394,413 Patented uly 30, 1968 The immovable side gate is secured to the headboard 1 and footboard 2 by screws 6, so that the immovable side board 3 is permanently, but removably secured to the headboard 1 and the side board 2.

The immovable side gate 3 comprises two sections 7 and 8, which are of mirror-image configuration. The section 7 has a substantially horizontally disposed bottom rail 9 and a top rail 10 of predetermined curvature. The upper section 8 has a bottom rail 11 of the same predetermined curvature as the top rail 10 of the lower section 7 to complement the top rail 10 of the bottom section 7 and a substantially horizonally disposed top rail 12. In addition, the top rail 10 of the section 7 and the bottom rail 11 of the section 8 are secured together by screw bolts 13.

In order to convert the crib bed, as disclosed in FIG. 1, into a youth bed, as disclosed in FIG. 3, it is merely necessary to remove the movable side gate 4, as well as the guide rods 5, and to secure the top section 8 in in- 'verted position to the side of the crib bed which was closed up before by the movable side gate 4. Screws 6 are again employed to secure permanently, but releasably, the section 8 to the headboard 1 and the foot board 2, respectively. The lower section 7 of the immovable side gate 3 remains in the position, as it was used before in the crib bed.

Due to the fact that the side gate 3 comprises two sections which are immovably secured to the headboard 1 and the footboard 2 and in addition, are located such, that the side gate 3 is disposed adjacent to the wall, it is prevented that the child using the crib bed is exposed to injury, since, even if the child should attempt to climb up on top of the bottom rail 11 of the section 8 of the side gate, 3, the child could only fall back into the crib and not outside of the crib.

While I have disclosed one embodiment of the present invention, it is to be understood that this embodiment is given by example only and not in a limiting sense, the scope of the present invention being determined by the objects and the claims.

I claim:

1. A convertible crib bed comprising a headboard,

a footboard disposed parallel to and spaced apart from said headboard,

a guide rod secured at one side of said head board and on the corresponding side of said footboard, a first side gate movable along said guide rods to assume a lifted position and a lowered position, respectively,

a second side gate immovably but releasably securedv to the other side of said headboard and to the corresponding side of said footboard,

said second side gate comprising two superposed sections of a mirror image configuration,

the lower of said sections having a substantially horizontal bottom rail and a top rail of a predetermined curved alternating concave and convex configuration, and

the upper of said sections having a bottom rail of a predetermined curved alternating concave and convex configuration complementary to said top rail of said lower section and a substantially horizontal top rail, while said upper of said sections is mounted on said lower of said sections, and said upper of said sections being secured selectively to the opposite side of said r 3 a i 4 erib bed-u'pon removalof said movableside gate and References Cited' .99 rs qn..,.q saiM b ad n aiyou be UNITED PATEN 2. The convertible crib bed, as set forth in claim 1, STA TES TS which includes 2,677,832 5/1954 Christensen 593 means for releasably securing said top rail of said lower 5 2,754,524 7/1956 Densmore of said sections to said bottom rail of said upper of 3,135,973 6/1964 Spence? 5 100 said sections 3,299,450 1/1967 Gottfried et a1 5- 100 3. The convertible crib bed, as set forth in claim 2,

wherein BOBBY R. GAY, Primary Examiner said securing means comprises screw bolts. 10 R. D. KRAUS, Assistant Examiner. 

